“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
—Ray Bradbury
December 2010
November 2010
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
—Ivan Turgenev
“Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished.”
—Leslie Nielsen
“If you will it, it is no dream.”
—Walter Sobchak
“Memory is the scribe of the soul.”
—Aristotle (via daniellekiemel)
“Music never talks back to me, music never argues with me, music is my best friend, music doesn’t put me in jail, unless I get naked onstage, music makes me happy and music makes me sad only when I want it to, music is my memory and music is my wife, music is my life partner, the only one who will never ever leave me.”
—Tommy Lee (via lonestarqueen)
“Recommend a thing to do on a date? Go to the movies. But it all depends on how you watch a movie. Movies are often thought of as a sort of a spectator activity, I think movies are more fun when you take a more proactive role, especially on a date. ‘Cause if you’ve got someone kind of next to you, there’s so much kind of play that can happen with how you touch or whisper. It’s my fave… I love going to the movies with a girl. I love it. Love it.”
—Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Walk tall, or baby don’t walk at all.”
—Bruce Springsteen
“When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.”
—Jessica Lange
“I know they say the first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.”
—Drake
“I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest. So say it. Or say it to yourself in a mirror. Maybe it will come out in a letter you’ll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying ‘I could’ve, but it’s too late now.’ There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel, and you so clearly know what you need to say, you’ll know it.I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
—Taylor Swift (via -longliveallthemagicwemade)
“Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.”
—The Stranger, Albert Camus. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“An apple a day will keep anyone away… if you throw it hard enough.”
—Stephen Colbert
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
—Wendell Berry (via justbesplendid)
“Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.”
—H. G. Bohn (via justbesplendid)
“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80’s movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.”
—Easy A (via misswallflower)
“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
—Erica Jong
“If faces were different when lit from above or below - what was a face? What was anything?”
—Lord of the Flies, William Golding
“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
—Robert Half
“The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.”
—Brian Tracy
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
—William Somerset Maugham
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
—Max Ehrmann (via misswallflower)
“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
—Scott Westerfield (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“Music is a safe kind of high”
—Jimi Hendrix (via izzzze)
“The less you notice them, the more they chase after you.”
—Henry Miller
“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams; they will come to you.”
—Randy Pausch
“As long as we dare to dream and don’t get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible.”
—Hilary Swank
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
—Benjamin Franklin (via kari-shma)
“I’d like to be more approachable, not less weird.”
—Chloe Sevigny
“
Woman…
Woman…
Was created from the rib of a Man,
not from his head to be above him,
not from his feet to be walked upon,
but by his side to be equal,
near to his arms to be protected,
and closed to his heart to be loved…
“Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
—Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
“That’s the best revenge of all: Happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via domichacouture)
“Love makes you stupid, Just like wars, famine, the BP oil spill, we have the attention spans of a mosquito, and we don’t remember what made us unhappy in history. It may be harder the second time around by virtue of the fact that you already know what it feels like for this to happen to you. When you’re in love for the first time it’s the most unbelievable feeling, and the second time you get your heart broken you become a little more guarded. You become a little more sensible about how you throw your emotions around. But here’s the kicker… you do it again, and you do it again, and you do it again.”
—Ian Somerhalder (via destinys-delena)
“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
—Jim Thompson
“Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.”
—10 Things I Hate About You
“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
—Sammy Hagar
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
—Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
—Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)
“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.”
—Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
—Albus Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling
“Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”
—White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via thechocolatebrigade)
